Yaroslav of Tver

Yaroslav III. Yaroslavich (Russian Ярослав ІІІ Ярославич; . * 1230, † 1272 ) was from 1264 the Grand Prince of Tver and Vladimir from the dynasty of Rurik. He was the son of Yaroslav II

Life

Jaroslaw followed his older brother Alexander Nevsky on the Grand Duke chair. Alexander's son Dimitri had previously been expelled from the major trading city of Novgorod. The recognition of Yaroslav by the local urban population meant at the same time its enforcement as Grand Duke. Unlike normal up until Jaroslaw not moved his seat of power from his ancestral principality of Tver part in the main town of Vladimir. With it, a process of decline, the Grand Duke dignity and the city of Vladimir began. Tver and Novgorod and later Moscow became the main cities. Jaroslaw and his successors could barely as hegemons other Wladimirern and Russian princes penetrated over. Even compared to the Golden Horde, they increasingly began to no more than a vassal, but as a submissive supplicant.

An important development during the reign of Yaroslav III. was the enforcement of sovereignty on the part of the urban population of Novgorod. Already at the accession to power of a contract between the Grand Duke and the urban population had been drawn up, which held the rights and obligations of both sides. In 1270 there were violent clashes, which eventually ended so that Jaroslaw Novgorod granted numerous privileges. Among other things, he was allowed to use only local officials and speak no rights over Novgorod without advice from representatives of the city in the city.